Does changing race and gender mid-game cause any major bugs or issues?

[dragovianwarrior95]

I want to change the gender and race of my character, although I'm pretty late in the game as I already finished several quest chains and maxed out almost every skill.

 

My character is unmarried, but will there be any major consequences for switching gender/race now?

[DoctorKaizeld]

It can break the game quite severely. I dont believe there is a work around for it yet.

[Kvosh]

This can happen if you change your character too often...

http://imgur.com/MPTMerB

[dragovianwarrior95]

It can break the game quite severely. I dont believe there is a work around for it yet.

May I ask what exactly it breaks? Because I can deal with stuff like skills being reset or spells being forgotten.

[DoctorKaizeld]

No it isnt a simple stat reset. It will break your character. Textures get messed up. Stats break. Special class abilties break. Everything goes bad dont do it just start a new game... Believe me on this it's better that way.

[jjb54]

It will crash the game .. if not right away, it will be a slow and painful corruption of your saved games from the " change " forward.

 

To many things are " set " in the game ... as to your current " Race " - " Gender ".

 

Bottom Line: It is NOT recommended. But if you indeed want to ' experiment '. Back up your current set of saved games and realize that 1 of 2 things will indeed happen.

 

1. You will find you will need to go back to the saved, saved game.

2. You will start the game over from scratch.